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- proper noun A taxonomic
subphylum within thephylum Myzozoa —parasitic protista having nocilia .
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The fourth group is the CHROMALEVOLATES, and includes an enormous diversity of algae -- brown algae, as well as the unicellular and very beautiful diatoms, dinoflagellates, as well as ciliates (remember Paramecium from high school?), and a parasitic group called Apicomplexa (which includes that malarial parasite Plasmodium).
Boing Boing 2010
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Family members share numerous genes, but many are unique to Apicomplexa, making it difficult to predict or determine gene functions.
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Apicomplexa that is able to infect a wide variety of host cells.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Sandeep Ravindran et al. 2009
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Apicomplexa that is able to infect a wide variety of host cells.
Elites TV 2009
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Apicomplexa that is able to infect a wide variety of host cells.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Sandeep Ravindran et al. 2009
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Carotenoids are generally synthesized in well defined subcellular organelles, the plastids, which are also present in the phylum Apicomplexa, which comprises a number of important human parasites, such as Plasmodium and Toxoplasma.
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The protozoan parasites Theileria parva and Theileria annulata, like Plasmodium spp., belong to the phylum Apicomplexa.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jacqueline Schmuckli-Maurer et al. 2009
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Their success effectively turned the parasite into a dependable genetic workhorse for all the diverse organisms in the Apicomplexa phylum.
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They try to control the insect population by infecting them with various protists from Apicomplexa.
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Other differences in the taxonomic recovery of tags included representatives from alveolates (Apicomplexa and Ciliophora), Ichthyosporea, Metazoa, parabasalids, rhodophytes, stramenopiles, Fungi and Viridiplantae.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Linda A. Amaral-Zettler et al. 2009
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